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Examples
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The beat-beat-beat of the ventilation system began.
Hell Wings Over Manhattan Adams, Stephen 2004
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The rocket-tubes had been shut off and only the steady beat-beat-beat of the ventilation pumps came along the dark deck where Crane and the girl stood.
Hell Wings Over Manhattan Adams, Stephen 2004
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The office area of the jail was too small to hold three men, three strap-ping not - quite - men, and one extra - large Sheriff comfortably, so Avery had herded them into the nearby Town Gathering Hall, which echoed to the soft flutter of the pigeons in the rafters and the steady beat-beat-beat of the grandfather clock behind the podium.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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The beat-beat-beat as the wings of unseen birds filled her up as if she were a crystal vessel.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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The beat-beat-beat of the wings of unseen birds pushed outward, past the barrier between humans, and en - tered Caesare's psyche.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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They met in the middle, poised an instant on the top wave of rhythm and stepped back, every footfall, every movement, their very breathing, in time to the beat-beat-beat of the fiddle's air which filled the room as insistently as the odor of the pines.
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Instantly through the soft swell of her breast throbbed a beat-beat-beat.
The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905
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And now, as she listened with him, her breath began to come in sobbing excitement between her lips -- for there was no mistaking that sound, that steady _beat-beat-beat_ that came from beyond the cavern wall and seemed to set strange tremors stirring in the air about their ears.
The Hunted Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Max Tundra wants you to move your body to the beat-beat-beat ...
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Max Tundra wants you to move your body to the beat-beat-beat ...
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